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    What is this?

    2001 Mercury 90HP 2 stroke Anyone know what this part is and what it does?
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    No Power to motor or trim

    2001 Mercury 90hp 2 stroke on a 2001 Nitro 700LX Was out in the water running great always started right up with no problems. Went to start it to head back into shoe and nothing. No clicking noise or anything. Thinking dead battery I switched batteries and still nothing. Everything else...
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    Correct idle rpms? 2001 90 hp

    2001 Mercury 90 HP Does anyone know what the rpm's at idle should be? I am reading 1,000 rpms at idle on muffs.
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    Tach wont work 1991 90 hp

    1991 Mercury 90HP Tack will not work things checked so far Have power to tach have good ground took out tach put in friends boat works perfect put his tach in my boat does not work. Have continuity from grey wire from motor to back of tach Battery is charging great so I am guessing rectifier...
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    Oil in cowling 2001 90 hp

    2001 Mercury 90HP Seem to have alot of oil near the front of the cowling where the cables through. Ran it on muffs with cowling off and don't see any oil dripping from anywhere. IS it possible I have the motor tilted to high up when not in use where it coulkd be coming from the cap on the oil tank?
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    Wire Indentity 2001 90 hp

    2001 Mercury 90HP Anyone know where these wires belong or are they not needed?
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    Help identify bracket

    2001 Mercury 90HP JUst got this boat and saw this bracket and 2 screws laying on the bottom of the cowling. Anyone have any idea where this should be?
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    Smoke out of prop 2001 90 hp

    Have a 2001 Mercury 90HP Ran the motor today on muffs. After I shut it off a little bit of light white smoke came out of the prop. IS this normal?
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    Clunk noise when put in reverse

    I am still working on buying a 2001 NItro 700 lX from a month ago. It has a 2001 Mercury 90hp motor. Went this morning to crank it up just to check it out one last time. Cranked right up idled a little rough on muffs. My concern is when I put in reverse it makes a clunk noise when it first goes...
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    Miss at idle 2001 90 hp

    2001 Mercury 90HP Took the boat for a test drive. At idle it has a miss to it. Not bad but you can tell. It will stay idling though and you can idle around the lake with no problem. Give it throttle and it runs great not a miss or hesitation will cruise at 52 MPh all day long. Any ideas what...
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    Throttle hard to move to reverse 2001 090 hp

    2001 nitro 700 LX 9 2001 Mercury 90hp Throttle moves smooth going into foward. when I try to shift into reverse it goes about 1" then feels like it binds up, I can force it to go the rest of the way using using two hands and pushing really hard. Does it at the same spot everytime. Any...
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    Throttle binding

    "The throttle seems to be bind "The throttle seems to be binding, the thottle lever will not go to idle position. If I remove cable it operates right. I attached a pic looks like the connection is crooked instead of straight. Could I have the wrong connection on the cable?"
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    Oil mixture

    1979 Evinrure 85hp 85999R 1979 Evinrure 85hp 85999R I been noticing my plugs are getting fouled with oil. I use a mixture of 50:1 like the book says. Seems like it might be to much oil though. Will it hurt to drop to 40:1 ?
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    Spark PLug Gap

    1979 85hp 85999R All the ma 1979 85hp 85999R All the manuals say to gap plugs at .030 SOmewhere I read that .040 is better. Can someone tell me the correct spark plug gap
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    Ethanol fue

    1979 85hp 85999R I was told t 1979 85hp 85999R I was told that using Ethanol fuel is not good for my motor. THis is the only fuel around here though. Should I add something to the tank anytime I fuel up?
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